Peas, carrots, onions, bowling balls.
To some people it must have seemed equally out of place when after years of doing marketing, advertising and promotion, I went back to school to get a master's degree in social work.

But to know me is to know that not only am I someone who eats his vegetables and can break 100 on a good night at the local lanes after a couple of Frescas, but that I also have a certain way with people that seems to help make their lives better.

Here's how I explained it when I gave my commencement speech at my Fordham University graduation...